- Military
- YAOGAN 20C
- NORAD 40111
- 2014-047C
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Gulf of Aden
Orbit ends over Sudan
In the Earth’s shadow since
Back in sunlight
In view from you
Nobody watches Yaogan Weixing 20 fu xing er go over, but a receiver still asks whether it is above the horizon. Say where you are and this card answers.
Your position is rounded to about a kilometre and sent only to the Orbinauts API, to find the pass.
No brightness has been published for Yaogan Weixing 20 fu xing er, so it is not a naked-eye satellite and no city page carries pass times for it. Nothing here estimates one.
Seeing it
There is nothing to go outside for: it is too faint to see with the naked eye from anywhere on Earth.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over Russia LIVE
Where is Yaogan Weixing 20 fu xing er?
At 6:46:07 PM UTC Yaogan Weixing 20 fu xing er was over Russia (63.4° N, 122.8° E), 995 km up, moving at 7.41 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.
What is Yaogan Weixing 20 fu xing er?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Aug 9, 2014.
Can I see Yaogan Weixing 20 fu xing er?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Yaogan Weixing 20 fu xing er, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- General Armaments Dept. of the PLA
- State
- China, People's Republic of
- Built by
- Chinese Academy of Space Technology, Beijing (CASC 5th Acad)
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- 500 kg
- Operating
- Orbit class
- Low Earth orbit
From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, that a defence organisation flies it, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 6:46 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:46 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 63.4° N, 122.8° E
- Altitude
- 995 km
- Speed
- 7.41 km/s (26,680 km/h)
- Course
- east
- Light
- In the Earth’s shadow until 6:47 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 63.4°
- Orbital period
- 107 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 13.45
- This orbit
- 787 to 1,388 km
- In shadow
- 32 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 2,400 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 7:39 AM, 11 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:39 AM, 11 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Yaogan Weixing 20 fu xing er, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Yaogan Weixing 20 fu xing er has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.
From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 8, 2026, 1:11 PM, 3 hours old. Only approaches serious enough to be reported publicly are listed: within three days and, for two bodies near the Earth, closer than a kilometre with a chance of a collision above 1 in 10,000, the level at which NASA moves the ISS.
Launched with
Yaogan Weixing 20 fu xing er shares its launch, 2014-047, with 5 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| YAOGAN 20A | Satellite |
| YAOGAN 20B | Satellite |
| CZ-4C R/B | Rocket body |
| CZ-4C DEB | Debris |
| CZ-4C DEB | Debris |
Read from the international designators of the US catalogue: the year and the launch number every piece of one launch shares. A body that has come down is no longer listed.
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 7:39 AM, 11 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "YAOGAN 20C",
"OBJECT_ID": "2014-047C",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:39:30.339360",
"MEAN_MOTION": 13.4545947,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.04025046,
"INCLINATION": 63.3793,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 8.0197,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 15.9117,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 345.4132,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 40111,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 60168,
"BSTAR": -0.000026713434,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00000117,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}